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Make A Static Home Page For Your Blog

OK, everybody knows that, with a Blogger blog, you can't really make a static home page. That's one of the known limitations of Blogger blogs. The home page of a Blogger blog will contain the most recent posts - as specified by the Settings - Formatting "Show at most" value.
So, just don't show any posts on the main page. That's not a lot of work, really.

In Settings - Formatting, set "Show at most" to 0 posts.

Add a "Welcome" gadget, using an HTML / Text gadget. Or compose a "Welcome" gadget using Post Editor, if you want a really shiny static home page. You'll have a couple choices for positioning the new gadget.

If you want your Welcome gadget to look like a "Welcome" post, you can position it just above the Blog Posts gadget, and have the sidebar(s) visible.

If you want your Welcome gadget to look like a "welcome" header message,, you can position it just below the blog header, and have the sidebar(s) below it and not visible.

Remove the Status Message code from the template, so your readers don't have to look at the "No posts were found which match your query" / "Showing posts with label" message (both messages are produced by the same code).

If you wish, look at my Static WebSite Test blog, and see how simple it is. Note that my example shows a linklist in the sidebar, with mostly links to other blogs. It's a separate task (no more complicated than this one) to create a menu bar for this blog, to index pages and posts in this blog.

Good Morning! Ok so I am lost! I have been going in circles through the pages you have trying to follow the step by step process. I seriously need some help. I feel like I'm computer savvy but maybe I'm missing something or maybe a couple details have been left out, I'm not sure. This is my blog http://gracefulbyanna.blogspot.com/

What I am trying to do is have all my posts be posted (linked, tagged- dunno) to the header(not sure what to call it) I want my reader to be able to come to my page and see a welcome screen with no posts there and then be able to click on about me, love, etc and see my posts. I want the post to be archived though. I hope I'm explaining this right. I followed SO many of your steps and thought I was doing awesome but I got to labels and now I'm confused. PLEASE HELP ME!! Thanks so much for any response!!

Instead of trying to simply help yourself using my blog (which works for some folks - but not for everybody), why not ask your question, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, so we can explore your needs, interactively? That's the better way to go.

Thank you Chuck for your quick response. Great suggestion! Will do that now. I looked for so long last night and the only page that seemed to explain how to do anything I think I'm trying to do was your blog. So thank you so much you guys for being so helpful by having this stuff on here for all us bloggers! Much appreciated!! ;)

Greetings, Chuck! I found your directions for making a static home page, and tried it last night. I added a slider. I added the slider code into the template and added the final code into the html/javascript gadget as directed. Then i followed your steps to set it as my homepage. It worked last night. I was so excited!

Then, this morning, when I went to the site, it takes a really long time to load, and an error symbol appears in the lower left. And now, the slider is not auto advancing to the next slide at all. Could you please tell me what it could be and how I can fix it? The site is www.fthreeo.com. Thank you!

Blogger just changed something that really pissed me off. I was just creating a blog with a static homepage depending on being able to display 0 posts on homepage. Now the minimum is 1. I mean, what’s that all about? Are they afraid no one will eat up their stinking dynamic views? Can someone, please, tell me if there’s a way to override that limitation and get the 0 posts option back? Thanks in advance.

Thats what i want to do in my blog but plus I want to put home page some boxes like categories but without snipplets, images or thumbnails only text and small text.Is it possible?or it can be with flash ?or is there any easier way?

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